Picnic — cutting API latency 47% by consolidating...
The Picnic social platform served 1M+ users across a graph of Go microservices behind a GraphQL gateway. The latency win came from a counter-intuitive move: fewer services, tighter contracts.
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GraphQL provides a flexible query language for APIs that lets clients request exactly the data they need. Posts cover GraphQL vs. gRPC performance comparisons, Cloud Run-hosted GraphQL services, and the architectural trade-offs between GraphQL and traditional REST endpoints.
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Brownlow — zero-trust voting on Cloud Run during live...
100K+ votes, 10K+ concurrent users during a live AFL Brownlow Medal broadcast. The architecture: Go on Cloud Run, GraphQL + gRPC behind a CDN, vote integrity through Cloud KMS + Security Command Center. Notes on what makes a live-broadcast load shape unusual.
All posts on this site are written by Pratik Dhanave, an Agentic AI Architect with 7+ years building production distributed systems, multi-agent AI platforms, and cloud-native infrastructure. About the author → Each article includes working code, architecture diagrams, and references to the specific frameworks and standards discussed. Browse all posts or explore related topics using the tag cloud above.